Anand is still using the Dalvik based Linpack test which is absolutely useless in comparing between different phones as the OS and whatever platform code can make huge differences. I told Brian about StabilityTest's native NDK implementation of Linpack several months ago but they still release reviews with the flawed Linpack.Reply

I have the same question as Phelerox. It oddly seems that the "single threaded" mode simply uses half the cores available. In most cases, the performance just scales up to double when "multi threaded" mode is used. This holds true for Exynos quad and Tegra 3 as well.

About the International One S... Is it the krait based international model or the "limited" 1.7 Ghz Scorpion based One S? I ask because it wouldn't make much sense to have an international version and a T mobile version in benchmarks if they were using exactly the same hardware. Reply

Kindly ignore the first part of my statement. I has just woken up and had a brainfart while reading those charts. The performance does scale up linearly from one core to 4 making Phelerox's question even more interesting.Reply

I don't know why single-threaded performance is so high but my guess is the SoC is memory bandwidth-limited once it reaches full utilization of all four cores. It's possible that Qualcomm increased the memory cache sizes in the S4 Pro SoC's and that's why we're seeing the big performance boost in the single-threaded run as well. Just my two cents.Reply

On paper the hardware for this phone looks great. I would consider this phone as my next upgrade unfortunately LG does not have a reputation updating it's software very often. I really hope LG does not lock this phone down and allows the modding community to provide updates to the android stack.Reply

Impressive phone, just a shame about lgs crappy software, the sunspider scores should be record breaking, as should browsermark and velamo...I'm pretty sure this beastie carries a 2mb slab of l2 cache....what effect that would have on performance who knows?

First off, excellent spec sheet. Although some of the specs seem to good to be true.

How does the Adreno 320 compare with rogue PowerVR 6 skews? Could Anandtech do an article on the Adreno 320 compared with other low TDP integrated graphics?

It will be very interesting to compare LG Optimus G specs with the iphone 5 (notice it isn't spelled "i-phone") and OMAP 5 based phones. OMAP 5 might have an advantage in battery life because on lower power mode the two A15 Cortex cores sleep, leaving computational activity to the two Cortex M4 cores.Reply

The A6, if Anand is correct, is an ARM Cortex A9 with added functionality taken from the ARM A15 design.The Exynos 5 uses two vanilla A15 cores, mixed with two A7 cores and combined as big.LITTLE configuration with ARM Mali GPUs. It's a typical ARM design. As long as Samsung doesn't design their own cores like Qualcomm did with Snapdragon and Krait, and now probably Apple also did, they can't steel anything important from Apple.Reply

I think Samsung did use a tweaked A9 licensed from a company Apple later acquired.The other phone manufacturers need to get better gpus asap adreno 320 will still be half as fast as the iphone5 if it doubled its performance. I do not understand why they ignore this part of their Soc designs.Reply